Legal Hemp Flowers
Dear Association of Police and Crime Commissioners,
Below is a link to a UK shop selling Legal hemp flowers as medicine.
https://www.iceheadshop.co.uk/research-c...
As you will note, the flowers look exactly like illegal cannabis flowers.
1. If a police officer discovers this legal hemp about a person and this person then informs the officer that the product is legal hemp and not cannabis. What happens next? Are they arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug? Thus wasting Police time and resources and locking and innocent person up for 8 hours onlt to release them without charge? Or are they unlawfully given a cannabis warning at the roadside?
2. Please provide me with documentation on how your officers are trained to differentiate between legal hemp flowers and illegal cannabis flowers thus avoiding arresting innocent members of the public on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug which would stretch your limited resources and cost the tax payer money.
3. If no training is currently available, please explain why not and explain how your officers are able differentiate the two substances from each other, thus avoiding arresting innocent members of the public on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug .
Yours faithfully,
Tyrone Armatage
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Dear Association of Police and Crime Commissioners,
You are late responding and are breaking the law. Please respond immediately!
Yours faithfully,
Tyrone Armatage
Dear Tyrone,
Thank you for your email, and please accept our apologies for the late reply.
The issue you raise would be an operational matter for the police service. The APCC supports Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), not police forces, and as such we do not provide guidance or training to the police, nor do we hold any information about what guidance or training they might have in this area.
In these circumstances, you may therefore want to approach the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) to see if they are able to assist with this enquiry.
Many thanks,
Toby Reeves | Policy, Communications and Support Officer | The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners | 07841533775 | Lower Ground, 5-8 The Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3JS | Tel: 0207 2224296 | Fax: 0207 2224157 | http://www.apccs.police.uk
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